The University Press of Florida and UF Press proudly present our award-winning books and authors from the last year.
Florida Springs: From Geography to Politics and Restoration
Christopher F. Meindl
Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Florida Nonfiction
American Association of Geographers Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography
Tampa Bay: The Story of an Estuary and Its People
Evan P. Bennett
Florida Historical Society Stetson Kennedy Award
Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Nonfiction
Tracing Florida Journeys: Explorers, Travelers, and Landscapes Then and Now
Leslie Kemp Poole
Co-published with Florida Humanities
Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Award
Florida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for Florida Nonfiction
The Florida Vegetarian Cookbook
Dalia Colón
Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Cooking
Modern Cuban: A Contemporary Approach to Classic Recipes
Ana Quincoces
Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Cooking
Dry Tortugas: Stronghold of Nature
Ian Wilson-Navarro
Co-published with Florida Humanities
Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Visual Arts
Sunset Colonies: A Visual Elegy to South Florida’s Mobile Home Communities
Diego Alejandro Waisman
Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Visual Arts
Wild Florida: An Animal Odyssey
Kirsten Hines
Florida Authors and Publishers Association, Sunshine State Award
Florida Authors and Publishers Association President’s Book Awards, Gold Medal for Science/Nature
Below Baltimore: An Archaeology of Charm City
Adam D. Fracchia and Patricia M. Samford
Shaping Dance Canons: Criticism, Aesthetics, and Equity
Kate Mattingly
American Society for Aesthetics Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics
James Hudson: Forgotten Forerunner in the Crusade for Civil Rights
Larry Omar Rivers
Florida Historical Society Harry T. And Harriette V. Moore Award
Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire
Mauro José Caraccioli
Finalist, Environmental Humanities Category, ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award
This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME and the generous support of Virginia Tech.
The Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration: New Deal Public Works, Modernization, and Colonial Reform
Geoff G. Burrows
Dances for a Variable Population, the dance company founded and directed by Naomi Goldberg Haas, author of Moving through Life: Essential Lessons of Dance, received the Outstanding Dance Organization Award from the National Dance Education Organization.
Clay Henderson, author of Forces of Nature: A History of Florida Land Conservation, received a Suncoast Emmy Award for his role as consulting environmental historian for Conservation Florida’s groundbreaking docuseries “Protect Our Paradise.”
Silvia Pedraza, coauthor of Revolutions in Cuba and Venezuela: One Hope, Two Realities was awarded the Premio a la Excelencia en los Estudios Cubanos for a distinguished career in Cuban studies from the Latin American Studies Association Cuba Section.
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